![]() ![]() Its bickering members imagine the ways in which Sherlock cheated death, including a takeoff on fan-written “slash fiction,” in which Holmes and nemesis “Jim” Moriarty nearly kiss. This return is anticipated within the series itself by a group of Sherlock cultists called the Empty Hearse (also the title of the first episode), to echo “The Adventure of the Empty House,” the story in which Arthur Conan Doyle brought the original Holmes back from the presumed dead - and also to reflect Cumberbatch’s own followers. “Sherlock” returns to television as an Event. Martin Freeman, the series’ Doctor Watson, has played Bilbo Baggins in a brace of “Hobbit” movies (in which Cumberbatch played the dragon). Hudson (Una Stubbs) - and was the villain in the latest “Star Trek” movie, has become something of an international sex symbol. Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock - it’s all first names in this modern version, except for Mrs. ![]() Some things have happened in the interim, the most important of them, perhaps, not to the characters but to the actors who play them. The three-adventure third season, with Holmes very much alive (we knew this already, spoiler spotters, and anyway, he’d have to be), begins Sunday on PBS. It has been two years, in both real and fictional time, since Sherlock Holmes, as re-conceived by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss for the BBC series “Sherlock,” stepped off a roof to fall apparently to his death. ![]()
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